Known on television as The Waltons, they’re called The Spencers in the original book, which is how they’re named here. The time is the Great Depression and the large Spencer family, living at the foot of a Virginia mountain, is struggling hard just to survive. With his father having to take the only available job a long way from home, Clay-Boy is stuck with unusual responsibility for his brothers and sisters.

The Homecoming 2024

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“Fun Home” is a groundbreaking musical based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir. The story introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family—her mother, brothers, and volatile, brilliant, enigmatic father—in surprising new ways. This refreshingly honest musical explores themes of family, identity, and coming of age, offering a poignant look at seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

Fun Home

In this warm and poignant comedy, three longtime friends gather regularly to laugh, gossip and argue before going to visit their late husbands’ graves as they try to put the past behind them and move into the uncharted territory of widowhood. Their fun-loving camaraderie is turned upside down when widower Sam enters the scene – and as the ladies vie for Sam’s attention, the dynamics of their friendship may be changed forever.

The Cemetery Club

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920’s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.

Cabaret

Catherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with: there’s her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. And a further problem: how much of her father’s madness—or genius—will Catherine inherit?

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6 - 15 Dec, 2024

The Homecoming 2024

11 - 20 Oct, 2024

Fun Home

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